many of us wanted sometime or another to go find us an engineer.
Now I'm a little scared, being a Mechanical Engineer.
Although I don't/didn't work in the automotive field, so maybe I'm safe. I try my best to incorporate serviceability into systems I design.
When I was in the Army, M60 tanks would come into the shop with connectors broken off the rear comm box. The cable and connector went thru a hole in the fender support, and when the tank threw a tread, the box got pushed up and broke the connector off. I sent in a suggestion to move the box back 2 inches on the fender so the flexible cable was the only thing inside the hole. The response was "We've redesigned the fender support brace with a bigger hole. We'll replace the support brace when the tanks come back to the depot for overhaul. Your suggestion is denied." It didn't matter that all it took was drilling 4 holes 2 inches to the rear of the existing holes. They had to spend a ton of money to replace the bracket, instead of incorporating a field fix for a few minutes time.
